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Title: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Legs on 27 February, 2018, 11:44:33 am
Not quite misheard lyrics - this is for the songs where you know full well what the real lyrics are, but just sing the wrong ones for sh1ts/giggles/smuttiness...

Whole Again - Atomic Kitten
You can make me whole again
You can fill my hole again

Handy Man - Jimmy Jones (or James Taylor)
I'm not the kind that uses pencil or rule/I'm handy with the love and I'm no fool
I'm not the kind that uses pencil or rule/I'm handy with my loving tool

We Built This City - Starship
We built this city on rock and roll
We built this city on sausage rolls
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 February, 2018, 11:53:52 am
I can never listen to His Bobness doing "With God On Our Side" without weighing in with the Half Man Half Biscuit version (http://halfmanhalfbiscuit.uk/trouble-over-bridgwater/with-goth-on-our-side/).
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 27 February, 2018, 01:22:24 pm
Any song that mentions California, I change it to "Valley Corner". Dunno why really.
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Post by: T42 on 27 February, 2018, 01:23:19 pm
Morning has broken
Morgens hat's Brötchen

Abilene, Abilene,
Sweetest town I ever seen...
Ebberdeen, ma Ebberdeen
Grimmest hole ah ivver been...

There are also a few songs where I only remember the parodies.  Can't remember any just now.
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Kim on 27 February, 2018, 01:40:28 pm
Weirdly my mind's gone completely blank, but there should be an entire category for that childhood sport of augmenting instrumental TV themes with de-facto lyrics by the simple means of repeatedly singing the name of the programme in a vague attempt to fit the tune.
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Paul on 27 February, 2018, 02:55:58 pm
I can see clearly now the rain has gone

I can see Deirdre now Lorraine has gone

I don't know why.
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: T42 on 27 February, 2018, 04:34:13 pm
That's like the one in Dublin:

I can see Clery's now, the crane has gone

- following renovations.

A chum used to sing "Rock of Ages" with the first word changed to something anatomical and rude. The rest of the verse fell nicely into context.
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Post by: Peter on 27 February, 2018, 05:33:56 pm
Since Trump, I've re-worked one of my favourite standards, Stormy Weather:-

Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky
Stormy Daniels
She does things you won't find in the manuals.....

and

Can't go on, everything I had is gone
Stormy Daniels
Had more **** than twenty cocker spaniels

NSFW?
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 February, 2018, 05:51:42 pm
U2:
I'm not the only one
Starin' at the sun With a smelly bum


IGMC.
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Canardly on 27 February, 2018, 05:57:06 pm
Desmond Decker

Me ears are alight......
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Post by: Pingu on 27 February, 2018, 06:01:26 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 27 February, 2018, 05:57:06 pm
Desmond Decker

Me ears are alight......

Oh, yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxELSzay2lc
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Post by: Basil on 27 February, 2018, 06:27:21 pm
Motorhead:  The eight of spades.  The eight of spades.

I do it to annoy the boys really.
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Post by: spesh on 27 February, 2018, 06:50:27 pm
AC/DC:

Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap with sheep...

(as sung by Bob Rivers)
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Post by: Graeme on 27 February, 2018, 06:56:28 pm
James, "Tomorrow"
You can't catch love with a net or a gun
You can't catch love with an elephant gun.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 04 March, 2018, 03:00:12 pm
Bruce Springsteen:  "Everybody's got a hungry arse".
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Basil on 04 March, 2018, 03:36:48 pm
I left my heart,
In Fat Sam's Disco
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: T42 on 04 March, 2018, 05:20:46 pm
Then there are the famous ones, "Your walrus hurt the one you love" and "Big horse, I love you".

But they're clean.
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Basil on 04 March, 2018, 06:11:41 pm
Then there's Englebert Humperdinck's kitchen sink classic.

Please degrease me, let me flow.
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Post by: spesh on 04 March, 2018, 06:17:43 pm
Lump - Presidents of the United States of America, now ruined by the current incumbent...

It's Trump, it's Trump!
What's on his head?
It's Trump, it's Trump, it's Trump!
Oh we're so dead!
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Post by: Redlight on 05 March, 2018, 03:29:21 pm
You can't hurry lunch
Oh, you have to eat slow
If you eat too quickly
Your tum will hurt before you know...
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: clarion on 05 March, 2018, 04:13:19 pm
Back to the days of working in theatre (Based on a true story)...

Summertime, and the rigging is easy
Sparks are jumping, and the Crew Boss is high
Your Director's rich, and your Chief ain't good looking
So hush, little techy, don't you cry

One of these mornings
You're gonna rig up singing
Spread your spansets
And reach for the sky(hook)
But till that morning
You'll have to risk dodgy wiring
So hush, little techy
Shut up.....and die.
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: T42 on 05 March, 2018, 04:15:36 pm
Quote from: Basil on 04 March, 2018, 06:11:41 pm
Then there's Englebert Humperdinck's kitchen sink classic.

Please degrease me, let me flow.

Reminiscent of

Hail Mary, full of grease, the Lard be with you.

Best said in a stage Oyrish accent.
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Torslanda on 06 March, 2018, 10:36:22 am
Uncle Peter knows the title. all I can remember is a line from a hymn from childhood...

'Most highly flavoured gravy'
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: spesh on 06 March, 2018, 12:04:44 pm
Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild Drink Mild
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 March, 2018, 01:53:45 pm
Hey ho, hey ho
It's off to work we go
With a shovel and a pick and a rhubarb stick
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Vince on 07 March, 2018, 02:14:28 am
Take my hand, I'm a stranger in paradise little parasite
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Post by: T42 on 07 March, 2018, 08:03:22 am
^^^ Nice.

---o0o---

Are you lonesome loathsome tonight?

And in It's Now or Never:

Your lips excite me -
Would you like to bite me?

I've known that version so long that I've forgotten the original, if I ever knew it.
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: clarion on 07 March, 2018, 09:15:06 am
Quote from: Vince on 07 March, 2018, 02:14:28 am
Take my hand, I'm a stranger in paradise little parasite
Shake my gland, I'm a strange-looking parasite
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Post by: Legs on 07 March, 2018, 10:53:16 am
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 March, 2018, 01:53:45 pm
Hey ho, hey ho
It's off to work we go
With a shovel and a pick and a rhubarb stick
I thought the traditional lyrics were
"bucket and spade and a hand grenade"  ???
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Torslanda on 07 March, 2018, 03:51:10 pm
With - a shuvel anna spade anna hand grenade...
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: T42 on 07 March, 2018, 05:12:51 pm
With a pile and a pong
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 March, 2018, 06:31:12 pm
And a great big bong?
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: T42 on 08 March, 2018, 07:54:27 am
I'll put a smell on you
Because you're mine.


And for Mr. Putin's twilight warriors:

Nights in White Sarin
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Legs on 08 March, 2018, 11:00:10 am
Gaviscon, Oh Gaviscon,
Can you hear my tummy rumbling?
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Post by: Legs on 29 March, 2018, 08:10:43 am
The vol-au-vent is not that bad (Tiny Dancer - Elton John)
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Post by: Paul on 31 March, 2018, 02:36:52 pm
Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry
When they see me makin’ a curry
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Post by: Pingu on 01 April, 2018, 12:04:06 am
My angel is a sennapod.
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Post by: simonp on 01 April, 2018, 12:36:25 am
Tiger flying in the sunshine.
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Post by: T42 on 01 April, 2018, 08:46:49 am
And did the county nance divine...
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Post by: Basil on 01 April, 2018, 02:49:30 pm
Peter the Great and Edward the Seventh,
George the Fifth and Louis the Eleventh,
Nebuchadnezzar, The Lord of the Rings,
These are a few of my favourite kings.
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Nuncio on 01 April, 2018, 09:58:54 pm
I try to say goodbye and I choke
Try to walk away and I stumble
Though I try to hide it, it's clear
My world crumbles I wear goggles when you are not here
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Post by: Andrij on 04 April, 2018, 12:34:59 pm
(https://scontent.flhr2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/29744782_2464683756894396_1010876571638722758_o.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=1af0bef3b784b16d30794e40afaf69e5&oe=5B718BB8)
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Post by: ElyDave on 06 April, 2018, 01:52:54 pm
Chris Rea
God's Great Banana Skin

always becomes "God's great, but man has skin"  for at least a few verses

And then there's "it's gonna be a hard egg tonight" by the Eagles
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: T42 on 09 October, 2018, 11:11:37 am
I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair
Floating like a Zeppelin on the bright summer air
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Post by: rogerzilla on 09 October, 2018, 09:38:54 pm
You're so fat
You probably think this song is about you
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Post by: Legs on 17 October, 2018, 03:04:03 pm
One night in Bangkok and the world's your lobster...
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Post by: Nothereforafasttime on 17 October, 2018, 03:19:18 pm
I'll just leave this one here....

Legend.

https://youtu.be/0ukn2YT5jeM
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: IanN on 17 October, 2018, 09:41:10 pm
Glen Campbell "I'm the linesman for Notts county"
(been a while since I sang that  :-[)

and everytime I take a wheel from a car or bike
"You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel"


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Post by: spesh on 17 October, 2018, 09:49:22 pm
Iron Maiden's "Fear of the dark" has always sounded more like a song about anatidaephobia. :demon:
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Post by: Redlight on 17 October, 2018, 10:00:04 pm
Quote from: Basil on 04 March, 2018, 06:11:41 pm
Then there's Englebert Humperdinck's kitchen sink classic.

Please degrease me, let me flow.

Followed by Paul Simon's '50 Ways to Clean Your Oven'
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Post by: nicknack on 17 October, 2018, 11:03:16 pm
Stranglers in the night.
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Post by: T42 on 18 October, 2018, 09:34:46 am
Quote from: Nothereforafasttime on 17 October, 2018, 03:19:18 pm
I'll just leave this one here....

Legend.

https://youtu.be/0ukn2YT5jeM

What's that he says at the end, "I've got to Land Rover the toy shop"?
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Post by: T42 on 20 October, 2018, 12:43:40 pm
I shat the sheriff
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Post by: Ben T on 20 October, 2018, 07:12:39 pm
Ace of base:

"I always have
Even when it didn't show
I always will
You know that I just want to torch you"

 ;D
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Post by: Andy64 on 21 October, 2018, 05:10:00 am
Foo Fighters - Pretender
"One of my legs is just like the other"
This was infused into my brain by a work colleague, I don't even know the correct lyrics anymore  ??? ???
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Post by: lou boutin on 21 October, 2018, 08:44:59 am
The first time I heard....

Arianda Grande No More Tears

I thought the opening lines were....

Don't go singing Die Fledermaus
I'm not cleaning your daughter's house.

(don't ask!!!) although to my defence, or not as the case may be when my boss started wittering on about Arianda Grande a couple of years ago (apropos to his research) I thought he was talking about coffee. 

I also thought Catch Feels was catch fish!!


I have officially turned into my parents.
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Post by: Torslanda on 23 October, 2018, 12:42:58 pm
Just out of interest, WTF language is 'Catch Feels' written in?

Is it the same as 'Blurred Lines'? Or is it its own special kind of nonse...?

Asking for a friend.
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Post by: Ben T on 23 October, 2018, 01:09:03 pm
Quote from: lou boutin on 21 October, 2018, 08:44:59 am
I also thought Catch Feels was catch fish!!

I think most people did  :)
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 23 October, 2018, 01:34:54 pm
A Lilac Harry Quinn by Half Man Half Biscuit. As I hate the fact that god is always said to be male.

'...if god had meant for us to work, then I'm sure he she would have given us jobs...'

No much of a change, I'll grant you, but I like it!
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 31 October, 2018, 11:17:21 am
Yesterday I found myself humming that Peter Gabriel classic, "Hedge Slammer".
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Post by: T42 on 31 October, 2018, 01:09:30 pm
Lots of young guys wear corduroy pants
As only a woman can.

From some tear-jerk Lloyd-Webber/A.N. Other song I heard years ago. Those are really the correct words, but normally there's most of two verses between those two lines.
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Post by: pumpkin on 31 October, 2018, 01:30:44 pm
My 8 year old was singing 'Dancing Queen' with 'Fried eggs and lights are low' as the first line
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 November, 2018, 09:05:06 am
Yesterday DJ Random played Janis Joplin singing "Me & Bobby McGee".  I'm afraid I substituted the word "sell" for "lose" in the line "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to...", because of Billy Bragg's "Marching Song Of The Covert Battalions".

And DJ Random played Mr Bragg's fine tune just now :thumbsup:
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Post by: Peter on 01 November, 2018, 11:49:27 pm
Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you
By now you should've somehow realised what you've gotta do
I can't believe that anybody sings as badly as Liam Gallagher - but they do
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Post by: T42 on 02 November, 2018, 01:30:05 pm
...Dressed up like a million-dollar trooper
Trying not to look like Henry Cooper...
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 November, 2018, 01:08:58 pm
It seems I have been singing the second line of Hawkwind's "Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke)" wrong for forty years, in that it should be:

Quote
All we de is get screwed up by other people's flaws
And not:
Quote
All we do is get screwed up on other people's floors
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Post by: spesh on 03 November, 2018, 05:56:12 pm
That reminds me...

Substituting "washing machine" for "silver machine" in the classic Hawkwind ditty.
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Post by: Wobbly John on 03 November, 2018, 08:23:20 pm
If I hear any BeeGees songs, all I can think of is Stevie Riks versions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qDZMjN3EOM & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otmq80677V0, etc...
 :facepalm:
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 November, 2018, 01:54:21 pm
Quote from: spesh on 03 November, 2018, 05:56:12 pm
That reminds me...

Substituting "washing machine" for "silver machine" in the classic Hawkwind ditty.

Or "I've got/A hole in my jeans"
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Post by: T42 on 12 November, 2018, 01:13:43 pm
Meanwhile, at High Noon...

Do not castrate me, oh my darlin'
On this our wedding day
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Post by: hellymedic on 25 December, 2018, 09:56:47 pm
Hedgehogs roasting on an open fire...
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Post by: Torslanda on 26 December, 2018, 10:23:23 am
Won't give you the unofficial 80s GMP version...
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Post by: T42 on 26 December, 2018, 01:21:34 pm
Quote from: hellymedic on 25 December, 2018, 09:56:47 pm
Hedgehogs roasting on an open fire...

<cackle> :thumbsup:

Duly pinched.
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Post by: professor palindrome on 26 December, 2018, 03:26:35 pm
Kangaroo Roll          (King of the Road.  Inspired by dreadful diction)

Whoops there goes another Lavatory Pan      (Same reason as above)

I've a baby in one hand and a pain in the udder     (Carole King's accent)

Can I believe the magic of your SIZE  /  and will you still love me tomorrow?     (Actually undetectable but I've told lots of people  ...  )
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Post by: T42 on 26 December, 2018, 05:14:24 pm
Not quite in the original sense, but when a song uses the word "eyes" it can be educational to substitute "nose", e.g.

When I look into your nose
I see my destiny.

...

Can't take my nose off you.


Etc. Other organs may also yield interesting results. Or not.
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Post by: lou boutin on 27 December, 2018, 05:57:13 pm
I'm farting carrots instead of I'm 14 carats (Selina Gomez Good for You)
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Post by: Andrij on 28 December, 2018, 03:31:22 pm
"Jack Frost roasting on an open fire..."
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Post by: Wobbly John on 28 December, 2018, 06:59:40 pm
Quote from: T42 on 26 December, 2018, 05:14:24 pm
Not quite in the original sense, but when a song uses the word "eyes" it can be educational to substitute "nose", e.g.

When I look into your nose
I see my destiny.

...

Can't take my nose off you.


Etc. Other organs may also yield interesting results. Or not.

That reminds me - Wet, Wet, Wet: Love is all around:

I feel it in my fingers
I stuck them up my nose...
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Post by: Kim on 29 December, 2018, 02:43:28 pm
I feel it in my fingers
I feel it in my toes
I'm more than ambidextrous
I even use my nose

This song was prime alternative lyrics material, on account of being permanently on the radio for the duration of 1994.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 22 August, 2020, 01:07:45 pm
The Cult "She Sells Sanctuary":

Quote
And the world, the world turns to crap

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Post by: T42 on 22 August, 2020, 01:16:45 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 28 December, 2018, 03:31:22 pm
"Jack Frost roasting on an open fire..."

Or the ancient Roman version

Christians roasting on an open fire...
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Post by: rogerzilla on 25 August, 2020, 02:47:14 pm
I always thought Feeder's "Buck Rogers" was "we'll get a house in Devon/Drink cider from eleven", which makes a lot more sense than "from a lemon", which is the actual lyric  ???
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 28 August, 2020, 09:56:10 am
I always use "Daydream Believer" to remember the household cleaning product I would otherwise forget  -

"Limescale remover...."

And at the end of a Bryan Chapman 600 we managed to improvise a total out of season.....

"O little pot of Sudocrem,
how gently you ease my....."
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Post by: T42 on 02 October, 2020, 03:26:11 pm
"Fly me to the Moon"?

Nah.

"Tie me to the loo..."
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 May, 2021, 08:08:40 pm
Prompted by DJ Random serving up the Vanilla Fudge cover, “She's Not There” by The Zombies:

Her nose was cold and wet
Her teeth were sharp and white
But she’s not there.
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Post by: Kim on 31 May, 2021, 09:09:20 pm
80s ears combined with 80s audio equipment is the misheard lyrics gift that keeps on giving.  Anyway, I was reminded of this earlier for some reason (likely a passing car), looked up the proper lyrics, and decided that mine were better.

I'm staring at the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
No moustache, and his clothes kind of shimmer
If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself in the mirror
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 19 July, 2021, 01:47:41 pm
I've just discovered that 60s song is actually "Come on Sloopy". I always thought they were singing about everyone's favourite kennel-lounging beagle.
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Post by: jsabine on 19 July, 2021, 03:14:08 pm
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 19 July, 2021, 01:47:41 pm
I've just discovered that 60s song is actually "Come on Sloopy". I always thought they were singing about everyone's favourite kennel-lounging beagle.

I really have been mishearing it.

I thought it was "Come on Irene."

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Post by: spesh on 19 July, 2021, 03:43:34 pm
Quote from: jsabine on 19 July, 2021, 03:14:08 pm
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 19 July, 2021, 01:47:41 pm
I've just discovered that 60s song is actually "Come on Sloopy". I always thought they were singing about everyone's favourite kennel-lounging beagle.

I really have been mishearing it.

I thought it was "Come on Irene."

(click to show/hide)

Correct. Hang On Sloopy was a hit for The McCoys in 1965 - it was actually a cover of a song originally called My Girl Sloopy, recorded by The Vibrations in 1964.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_On_Sloopy
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 19 July, 2021, 04:12:34 pm
So many tangled songs in so few posts! Not only is it "Hang on Sloopy" rather than "Come on Sloopy" (let alone Snoopy), it's "Come on Eileen" not "Irene".  ;)

Still leaves me wondering where the name "Sloopy" came from.
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Post by: nicknack on 19 July, 2021, 04:22:13 pm
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 19 July, 2021, 04:12:34 pm
So many tangled songs in so few posts! Not only is it "Hang on Sloopy" rather than "Come on Sloopy" (let alone Snoopy), it's "Come on Eileen" not "Irene".  ;)

Still leaves me wondering where the name "Sloopy" came from.
Probably onomatopoeic.
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Post by: Peter on 19 July, 2021, 06:32:19 pm
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 19 July, 2021, 04:12:34 pm
So many tangled songs in so few posts! Not only is it "Hang on Sloopy" rather than "Come on Sloopy" (let alone Snoopy), it's "Come on Eileen" not "Irene".  ;)

Still leaves me wondering where the name "Sloopy" came from.

Lyric fades out with, "Hang on Sloopy, (Come on, Come on)"......
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Post by: jsabine on 19 July, 2021, 07:40:53 pm
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 19 July, 2021, 04:12:34 pm
it's "Come on Eileen" not "Irene".  ;)

Thank you for clarifying. I did say I'd obviously misheard it.

Quote
Still leaves me wondering where the name "Sloopy" came from.

Steubenville, Ohio, apparently.

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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 19 July, 2021, 08:11:52 pm
That's a wonderful state resolution! Not because of the song, but because how many state resolutions contain phrases like "that old chestnut", "by golly", "a bunch of long-haired, crazy kids", and "just go ahead and pass the darn thing"?
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 September, 2021, 03:52:38 pm
I have just learned that the chorus of "Thumb" by Kyuss is actually the line:
Quote
You're living in thought so
repeated three times rather than "You live in a foxhole" or even "You're livin' in Vauxhall"

 :facepalm:
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: matthew on 22 September, 2021, 03:57:27 pm
I got caught out on Sunday with a hymn I know well "How deep the Father's love for us" that had been altered slightly to remove the gender bias of "Fathers" and "Sons".
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: offcumden on 22 September, 2021, 04:24:54 pm
"When I called you last night from Tesco's".   (Abba - Super Trouper)

Just looked this up, and I read that it's supposed to be "from Glasgow".  Surely some mistake?  Have a listen and tell me I'm right . . .
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 22 September, 2021, 04:43:22 pm
Super Trouper recalls Abba's early days when one of the band members worked as a supermarket delivery driver to make ends meet:

I was picking nearly everything
When I called you last night from Tesco
All I do is ring and ring and ring
Wishing every door was as fast, so.
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: offcumden on 22 September, 2021, 04:45:56 pm
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 22 September, 2021, 04:43:22 pm
Super Trouper recalls Abba's early days when one of the band members worked as a supermarket delivery driver to make ends meet:

I was picking nearly everything
When I called you last night from Tesco
All I do is ring and ring and ring
Wishing every door was as fast, so.

Ah, thanks, so I was right!  Don't know whether to be pleased or disappointed.
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 19 October, 2021, 06:27:46 pm
Not exactly a song I sing the wrong words to, more some words I sing to the tune of the wrong song; when I fire up the weather app on my phone and it says "Finding your location" I always sing this in my mind to the tune of "Losing my religion".
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Slave To The Viking on 14 November, 2021, 11:57:35 am
Don't go around tonight,
Well it's bound to take your life
The-e-e-e-re's a bathroom on the right
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Slave To The Viking on 14 November, 2021, 12:03:42 pm
"Fascination" by Alphabeat is now and always has been "Vaccination", since waaaay before Covid.

"You pull the trigger on my Spud Gun" always seemed a bit off piste for Kiss, but it's quite memorable, for all that.

And of course, as Bon Scott once hungrily opined, "It's a long way to the shop, if you wanna sausage roll".
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 November, 2021, 12:15:25 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 01 November, 2018, 09:05:06 am
Yesterday DJ Random played Janis Joplin singing "Me & Bobby McGee".  I'm afraid I substituted the word "sell" for "lose" in the line "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to...", because of Billy Bragg's "Marching Song Of The Covert Battalions".

And when Janis sings “In all kinds of weather…” then, thanks to the Bonzos, the next line is “We'll rhino together”, while the whole song is now “Me & Bradley McGee” following an anecdote from TV's Super D Millar during this year’s Tour.
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Peter on 14 November, 2021, 12:19:53 pm
National Anthem:-

Just been to our village Remembrance Day parade.  Fabulous turnout and great music from our local brass band (we are lucky to have a "top section" outfit).  I made an almost imperceptible change to the first two lines of a verse (my change comes second each time);-

"Thy/Her choicest gifts in store
On Her/Us be pleased to pour"

I say "imperceptible" - but it was noticed (and appreciated) by some!

Occurs to me that this must the one of the earliest examples of the deadly "in store".
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Legs on 06 February, 2022, 03:46:30 pm
Dancing Queen

Your adhesive will turn them on…
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Slave To The Viking on 12 February, 2022, 09:44:31 am
Whoa-oa, here she comes,
Watch out boy - she'll warm you up;
Whoa-oa, here she comes,
She's a fan heater.
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Peter on 12 February, 2022, 10:20:01 am
 ;D Have you seen any of Daryl Hall's clips on you tube?  He gets some really good people together, with a terrific drummer.  I think the series is called Daryl's House.
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: T42 on 03 April, 2022, 03:27:36 pm
...And there we stood talking of days that are gone
While the whale population of London looked on...
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: spesh on 02 February, 2023, 07:16:01 pm
<cued up by a T42 post (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=31801.msg2786837#msg2786837) in The Pub>

A certain Led Zeppelin ditty:

"And she's a buying a stairlift from Stannah"
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: IanDG on 02 February, 2023, 07:33:56 pm
With a Little Help.... - Joe Cocker

I did some Wonder Loaf

https://youtu.be/pcLnuEpQ1yg
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: rogerzilla on 03 February, 2023, 09:00:14 am
Dr Alban, "It's My Life"

Stop bugging me, stop buggering me
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: T42 on 03 February, 2023, 01:04:31 pm
Quote from: spesh on 02 February, 2023, 07:16:01 pm
<cued up by a T42 post (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=31801.msg2786837#msg2786837) in The Pub>

A certain Led Zeppelin ditty:

"And she's a buying a stairlift from Stannah"

Silly chao. Cheaper to stick to Shanks' pony.
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: numbnuts on 03 February, 2023, 02:23:42 pm
Catch the wind -  Donovan

I always thought it was :-

In the chilly autumn mist.....

In the chilly hours and minutes
Of uncertainty, I want to be
In the warm hold of your loving mind
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: T42 on 03 February, 2023, 04:13:48 pm
Quote from: numbnuts on 03 February, 2023, 02:23:42 pm
Catch the wind -  Donovan

I always thought it was :-

In the chilly autumn mist.....

In the chilly hours and minutes
Of uncertainty, I want to be
In the warm hold of your loving mind

What should it be, wormhole?
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Jaded on 06 February, 2023, 11:48:17 pm
Have we had "I will go down with the shit" by Dildo?
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 February, 2023, 12:03:00 am
Quote from: Jaded on 06 February, 2023, 11:48:17 pm
Have we had "I will go down with the shit" by Dildo?

And somewhat related, The Stranglers' “Toilet On The Sea”.
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Legs on 13 April, 2023, 09:48:18 am
Quote from: Jennifer Paige
It's just, a little thrush,
Feels like an itch,
Every time we touch...
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: T42 on 13 April, 2023, 11:10:50 am
A French one, and almost topical at that:

Je l'aime à mourir ==> Je l'aide à mourir.
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Snakehips on 13 April, 2023, 05:54:32 pm
Русский иди нахуй   instead of  We Will We Will Rock You , since the early part of last year, anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm3a08Dy-Mk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm3a08Dy-Mk)
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: cygnet on 13 April, 2023, 11:56:14 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 06 February, 2023, 11:48:17 pm
Have we had "I will go down with the shit" by Dildo?

See also "Good Ship" by Cornershop (an actual singles chart release)
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Robh on 14 April, 2023, 12:06:48 am
Quote from: Peter on 12 February, 2022, 10:20:01 am
;D Have you seen any of Daryl Hall's clips on you tube?  He gets some really good people together, with a terrific drummer.  I think the series is called Daryl's House.
Daryl's House is a fine thing, well worth looking up on Youtube.
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: spesh on 18 April, 2023, 02:39:03 pm
Breaking The Law Raking The Lawn - Judas Priest

And the 1993 Comic Relief version of Bohemian Rhapsody still springs to mind:

"I see a little chicken tikka on the side, Rogan Josh, Rogan Josh
pass the chutney made of mango.
Vindaloo does nicely
Very very spicey
ME!"

http://www.daviesmusic.co.uk/loopy/curry.htm
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 June, 2023, 08:54:35 pm
Just this minute found out that the words to Psycho Killer that I've always heard as Realisant mon espoir, je me lance vers tes bras, are actually Realisant mon espoir, je me lance vers la gloire.

Which is more in keeping. But hey it's never too late to catch up and it hasn't even been 40 years since I first heard it.
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: L CC on 26 June, 2023, 05:43:38 pm
As I slogged up Charlaw Fell this morning I was deeply concerned that the funk-soul-classic lady singing was in misery, the refrain over the cheery brass section being a reiteration that 'I don't wanna di-ie'.

I've just looked it up.

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Peter on 26 June, 2023, 05:54:38 pm
I Don't Wanna D...ance by Eddie Grant would do it, too!
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: T42 on 18 November, 2023, 11:10:16 am
The Rawhide Care Home Lullaby

[Keep 'em] Movin', movin', movin',
Though they're disapprovin',
Keep those bowels movin'
RAWHIDE!*
All the things I'm missin'
Good vittles, love an' kissin'
Are missing at the end of
My life.

* wretched draw-sheet

Not there yet...
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: fimm on 22 November, 2023, 11:24:04 am
I've only recently worked out that "People are Strange" doesn't actually contain the line
People go out in the rain
Because they're strange....
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 08 January, 2024, 10:09:13 am
Psycho Killer:
Tense and nervous, can't relax
Can't seem to face up to the fax
Can't send a telex,
There's no live wire
There's no smoke
Signal without fire.

(okay, not really, but should)
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: sam on 25 February, 2024, 11:36:54 pm
Amy Winehouse, 'He Can Only Hold Her'

That thing, that thing
https://youtu.be/3XKYZRuJEnU?si=By4e3iyUgdNA__5Z&t=150

De plane! De plane! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_plane!_De_plane!)
https://youtu.be/USfKJYZcUmI

On the version of Winehouse's song on my iPod it's easier to hear this.
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Legs on 01 March, 2024, 01:53:40 pm
Quote from: Chrissie Hynde
Gonna use my arms, gonna use my legs,
Gonna use my style, gonna use my sausage...
Title: Re: Songs you always sing the wrong words to...
Post by: Basil on 01 March, 2024, 02:04:06 pm
I don't think I've mentioned my eldest, when he was little, stomping into the kitchen after school, singing "Oh, the great grandad of York...".